Delhi Police Arrests UK National Terrorist

Al Qaeda terrorist Shumon Haq in the custody of Police's Special Cell officers at the Police headquarters in New Delhi (Photo: IANS)

Police said a British national Al Qaeda terrorist on a mission to radicalise Rohingya Muslims to fight in Myanmar has been arrested in the Indian capital….reports Asian Lite News

Al Qaeda terrorist Shumon Haq in the custody of Police’s Special Cell officers at the Police headquarters in New Delhi (Photo: IANS)

Deputy Commissioner of Police P.S. Kushwah said Samiun Rahman, 27, was arrested near Shakarpur bus stand in east Delhi on Sunday evening.

Police said the accused’s mission was to set up base in Manipur or Mizoram and radicalise Rohingya Muslims to fight the military in Myanmar.

Kushwah said the accused was in India for the past two months under fake identity of Shumon Haq from Kishanganj of Bihar and also had a fake voter identification card in the same name.

Rahman, who had been an operative of Al Qaeda for the last four years, had received a three-month arms training in Syria and fought in Alleppo, Kushwah said. Police also recovered a pistol and four cartridges from him.

The officer said that in the past two months the accused was in touch with different people from south India and West Bengal as well as Jammu and Kashmir.

“Initially he showed some interest in Kashmir and was talking to people over there. He wanted to know about the jihad happening in India but he didn’t take it forward,” Kushwah said.

Kushwah said Rahman was previously working in Bangladesh and was jailed.

“He had radicalised around a dozen people in Bangladesh,” he said, describing him as a “hardcore terrorist”.

Immigrant Rohingya Muslims stage a demonstration at the Jantar Mantar against persecution of the community in Myanmar (Photo: IANS)

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